Popular Post VPMC 22 Posted August 27, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2015 Hi, I have put together a rather large KMZ of every airport represented in FSX. They are organized in folders by REGION/STATE within COUNTRY within CONTINENT. All have fully annotated GE placard data with links to relevant websites, both Aviation and General Knowledge. Installing into Google Earth or Google Earth Pro (both are now free downloads): 1) Unzip the attachment into a KMZ file. 2) Double click on KMZ to launch GE which loads the KMZ into GE Temporary Places 3) Expand the "globe icon" and R-Click on the displayed folder icon which has same name (FSX Airport Directory). Select the "Save to MyPlaces" option and exit GE, discarding the temporary kmz when prompted. Locator Colours: All major airports with ILS are LIGHT-BLUE. Airports with "hard" runways are YELLOW. Airports with "grass" runways are GREEN. Airports with other surface types are ORANGE (gravel, sand, ice...) Seaplane bases are DARK-BLUE Heliports are PURPLE. Here is a screenshot that shows the general idea (...if it loads, this is my first time to try) VPMC Hi Attached in an Index KMZ for the FSX Directory providing access to the same Locator balloons and GE placards, but organized instead into alphabetic folders by ICAO code. VPMC FSX Airport Directory.zip FSX Airport Index.zip 11 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VPMC 22 Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 Caution: Be selective about activating the airport locators eg. stick to regions, states or even countries. Trying to activate whole continents or the World at one time will bring GEarth to its knees. VPMC 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ojiito 67 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Wow 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wolf2grey 53 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Dang....That was a lot of work. Big thanks. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fltsimguy 325 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Very much appreciated. I had downloaded and installed Carl Vokes work along the same line and each area had to be installed separately. This is totally comprehensive and a much more thorough job. Greatly appreciate your sharing this with us. Bryan 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wombat 63 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 maybe a silly question but does this work with P3D v2.5? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fltsimguy 325 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Hi Wombat, this is for Google Earth and GE Pro. It has no direct connection to which FS sim you are using other than the list of default airports in FSX and P3D V2 are most likely identical. So you should be able to find any specific airport in FSX or P3D which have the same base set of airports, unless in the process of making P3D they removed or added some airports. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wombat 63 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Hi Wombat, this is for Google Earth and GE Pro. It has no direct connection to which FS sim you are using other than the list of default airports in FSX and P3D V2 are most likely identical. So you should be able to find any specific airport in FSX or P3D which have the same base set of airports, unless in the process of making P3D they removed or added some airports. Hi fltsimguy, thank you for your help, I have GEPro so will try that today, looks like a great freebie, should become a sticky. Thanks also to VPMC for all the work involved in this. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrUnSavory1 14 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 YOU ROCK SIR!!!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kev D 1,359 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 What an excellent piece of work....Thanks very much! Kev 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tomaz Drnovsek 8 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Dude.. Mr... Sir... WOW. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dominique 770 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Quite an impressive work, you've a golden hand with data ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scott Harmes 1,824 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Now that must have taken some time. Huge thanks for your efforts. This will be really useful to so many fightsimmers. Cheers, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stillwater 13,322 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Amazing work, Vincent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VPMC 22 Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 Thanks to all for your comments! The real credit however should go to the folks at OurAirports.com who compiled a downloadable CSV list of 50,000 airports with all the associated Wiki links. I initially used this to do a World Airport directory for my own use, because the KMZ was too large to upload to these forums (11MB vs 4MB limit). I then got the idea of restricting it to FSX airports and adding runway data. An XML file with this info can be generated using Peter Dowson's MakeRwys utility (http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html). The readme file associated with this utility allows the output to be used to "satisfy one's data needs and the needs of other users of FSX". It wasn't a hard job to programatically merge these two data sources and generate a KML file, load it into GEarth and export it as a KMZ file that was less than 4MB in size. All in all just under 3 days work. Regards VPMC 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
reecemj 30 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Well thanks for taking the 3 days to put this together. All the airport info needed is in one place. Thanks again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Culley40 94 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 amazing work, thank you Quote Link to post Share on other sites
donbrindles 71 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 VPMC...firstly, thank you so much for what must have been a mammoth task - a labour of love I guess! Secondly, apologies if this a really dumb question, but..."Unzip the attachment into a KMZ file..." How to do that? Thanks again, Don Quote Link to post Share on other sites
luisclement 0 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flyingsub 6 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Thanks I've planned to do this for ages but have never found the time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VPMC 22 Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 To donbrindles: The file you download is a compressed ZIP file. R-click on it and select whatever unzip option your system offers...this extract the KMZ file and you take it from there. Rgds VPMC Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sid 96 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 What a heroic contribution to the Flight Sim community! Thank you so very very much VPMC! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cabnz 108 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Great work. Thank you Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cherrypicker 1 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Amazing VPMC ! Very Well Done !!! Thank you !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
M.Lewis 18 Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Now that is an incredible piece of work. Thank you for sharing with the community! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jfail 5 Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 I am impressed!!!, thank you for an outstanding piece of work and your contribution to those of us that are not worthy. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
European Mountain Man 5,174 Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 wow thanks nice bit of work very handy thanks regards stewart Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ziggy 547 Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Wow!! Thank you very much for all of this hard work!! Brilliant! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ricky1088 7 Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 dl your files and there really a need to say SUPER THANK YOU for the hard work 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VPMC 22 Posted September 1, 2015 Author Share Posted September 1, 2015 Hey thanks Ricky...n how's everyone down there in Bukit Timah? Long time no see Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ricky1088 7 Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Hi VPMC, Been born in a multi-racial country, a sentence ,we speak sometime consist of a few languages, so it is, Selamat datang di Singapura, æ¡è¿Žä¾†åˆ°æ–°åŠ å¡ , Welcome to Singapore, etc.... and if you do fly here, don't blink eyes or you may just find yourself fast in our neighbour airspace. Certainly, That's for laugh and hopes this cheers everyone reading this post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VPMC 22 Posted September 1, 2015 Author Share Posted September 1, 2015 Hi Ricky...yes I know, lived there for 7 years 1994-2001...still have many friends there, V Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alex330 83 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Thank you very much 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DarkCrow83 1 Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 DUDE! This is just awesome. Thank you for this. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tokitaumelie 40 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Thank you Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TigerTigerM 7,216 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Great resource. Downloaded & installed without any issues. Using now to sort out some flights. Thanks for taking the time & trouble to put this together. TTM Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaHunn 1 Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 where is the download link? or did i miss something? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VPMC 22 Posted November 12, 2015 Author Share Posted November 12, 2015 Hi DaHunn, There are two download links at the end of the first message on this thread (they're on page 1, this is page 2). Best , Vincent Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PureFrance 0 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Hello! Wow this is so great! I know I am going to repeat what everyone is saying, but this is incredible! Thank you so much for all the work and time you put in and to share it with us! Once again Thank you!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mac@bath 1 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 (edited) Now that REALLY is an impressive piece of work! Amazing stuff......Well done, buddy! Edited December 11, 2015 by mac@bath Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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